12-09-2018, 02:30 PM
Sometimes it's helpful to post an example from a medieval text to show how a word or abbreviation is used. There is a word on 17r with two abbreviation symbols, the "z" shape at the end and the macron over the cz.
The "z" shape is a very common Latin scribal abbreviation usually used at the ends of words. It stands for "-em" most of the time, but it can represent homonyms of "-em" as well (what it expands into depends partly on the language and partly on context).
Without the macron, this would usually be interpreted as lucum in Latin, but the macron indicates more letters have been omitted:
The "z" shape is a very common Latin scribal abbreviation usually used at the ends of words. It stands for "-em" most of the time, but it can represent homonyms of "-em" as well (what it expands into depends partly on the language and partly on context).
Without the macron, this would usually be interpreted as lucum in Latin, but the macron indicates more letters have been omitted:
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